New research from the University of Sheffield has revealed how fungus blocks and bursts blood vessels in the brain, helping scientists better understand how meningitis starts. The study, published i… [+2892 chars]
After more than a year of accomplishments, NASA has extended flight operations for the Mars Innovation helicopter through September. The space agency’s $2.2 billion spacecraft touched down on Mars … [+3281 chars]
Dear readers, Welcome to Quartzs newsletter on the economic possibilities of the extraterrestrial sphere. Please forward widely, and let me know what you think. This week: In the mood for Moon busin… [+7002 chars]
Even more information can be gained from those pterosaur feathers. The study indicates they were fairly small, meaning that they weren't used to help the animal fly. Instead, the feathers could have … [+1242 chars]
At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, an international research group made use of computer model simulations to determine that climate change is changing the mechanics of surfac… [+3355 chars]
These pictures depict the magnificent wonders of our planet, yet, they weren't taken anywhere on Earth. Instead, they were captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station to chronicle t… [+3327 chars]
A pre-print paper on humanity's timeline titled "Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization" has been published on arXiv. Russian astrophy… [+1657 chars]
Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and the moon are all set to align in the sky on April 23rd. The orbits of each planet have coincided to allow them all to appear in the same portion of the sky when vie… [+1165 chars]
Of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered, most of them closely orbit red dwarf stars. Part of this is because planets with short orbital periods are easier to find, but part of this is that re… [+3274 chars]
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now cooled by a gaseous helium cryocooler to under 7 Kelvin. With the cooler in its final state, the Webb team is operating … [+3562 chars]
We're not going to stop saying it. The James Webb Space Telescope is going to change modern astronomy for keeps, in so many ways that it will outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope in scope and de… [+3887 chars]
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes. Their re… [+5306 chars]
